1 Notmuch 0.36 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
4 New add-on tool: notmuch-web
5 -----------------------------
7 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-web` is a very thin web client. It
8 supports a full search interface for one user: there is no facility
9 for multiple users provided today. See the notmuch-web README file
12 Be careful about running it on a network-connected system: it will
13 expose a web interface that requires no authentication but exposes
16 Notmuch 0.35 (2022-02-06)
17 =========================
22 Implement the `date` and `lastmod` fields in the S-expression parser.
24 Ignore trailing `/` for pathnames in both query parsers.
26 Rename configuration option `built_with.sexpr_query` to
27 `built_with.sexp_queries`.
29 Do not assume a default mail root in split (e.g. XDG) configurations.
31 Fix some small memory leaks in `notmuch_database_open_with_config`.
36 Improve handling of leading/trailing punctation and space for
39 Only ignore `.notmuch` at the top level in `notmuch new`.
41 Optionally show extra headers in `notmuch show`. See
42 `show.extra_headers` in notmuch-config(1).
47 Drop `C-TAB` binding in hello mode, document `backtab`.
49 Fix visual glitch in search mode by running `notmuch-search-hook`
52 Don't add space to completion candidates, improves compatibility with
53 third party completion frameworks.
55 Make citation formating more robust against whitespace.
57 Use `--excludes=false` when generating the 'All tags' section.
59 Use cached copy of message body for `Fcc`, avoiding variant bodies for
60 signed and/or encrypted messages.
62 Add notmuch-logo.svg and use it in notmuch-hello view, replacing
65 Make header line in show buffers optional.
67 Add customizable names for search buffers.
72 Fix out-of-tree build for `python-cffi` bindings.
74 Rearrange position of {C,CXX,CPP,LD}FLAGS, prevent some clashes with
75 installed version of notmuch.
77 Ignore more configure options.
82 Replace some uses of `gdb` in the test suite with `LD_PRELOAD` based
85 Use `--with-colons` for gpgsm, fix compatibility with newer gnupg.
90 Add `matched` property to message objects.
92 Users are reminded that the old python bindings in bindings/python are
93 deprecated; this will probably be the last major release that ships
99 Use `database.mail_root` for path completion in bash/zsh.
101 Notmuch 0.34.3 (2022-01-09)
102 ===========================
107 Do not crash when presented with a .notmuch directory without a
108 xapian/ subdirectory.
110 Python Bindings (notmuch2)
111 --------------------------
113 Database constructor now searches for configuration by default. Pass
114 `config=Database.CONFIG.EMPTY` to disable.
116 The `Message.replies()` method now returns OwnedMessage objects, to
117 prevent certain memory de-allocation errors.
119 Fix for importing `notmuch2` module when building bindings
122 Notmuch 0.34.2 (2021-12-09)
123 ===========================
128 Fix a bug that wrongly resolved conflict between the `database_path`
129 parameter to `notmuch_database_open_with_config` and configuration
130 item `database.path` in favour of the latter.
132 Python Bindings (notmuch2)
133 --------------------------
135 When building the documentation for the `notmuch2` python module,
136 import from the built module, not a system wide installed one.
138 The notmuch2.Database constructor now uses the library function
139 `notmuch_database_open_with_config` to support the same configuration
140 and database location options as the library does.
142 Fix some unprintable exception objects.
144 Notmuch 0.34.1 (2021-11-03)
145 ===========================
150 Fix for deallocation and nulling of output parameter for
151 notmuch_database_{open_with,create_with,load}_config when errors
152 occur. This change fixes a potential use-after-free bug that has been
153 present since 0.32. This release also improves the documentation of
154 status returns for the same 3 functions.
156 Notmuch 0.34 (2021-10-20)
157 =========================
162 An optional new s-expression based query parser is available if
163 notmuch is built with the `sfsexp` library. See
164 notmuch-sexp-queries(7) for syntax, and use `notmuch config get
165 built_with.sexpr_query` to check if notmuch is compiled with
166 s-expression query support.
171 Support multiple `Delivered-To` headers in notmuch-reply(1).
176 Functions are now allowed in `notmuch-search-result-format`.
178 Improvements to unthreaded view on large threads.
180 Tolerate bad/missing working directory for most commands.
182 Allow customization of tree drawing symbols in notmuch-tree mode.
184 Notmuch 0.33.2 (2021-09-30)
185 ===========================
190 Improve reliability of T355-smime by changing gpgsm initialization.
192 Notmuch 0.33.1 (2021-09-10)
193 ===========================
198 Replace the fully-qualified-domain-name of the host with "localhost"
199 in the default email address. This should fix two flaky subtests in
202 Notmuch 0.33 (2021-09-03)
203 =========================
208 Correct documentation about transactions.
210 Add a configurable automatic commit of transactions. See
211 `database.autocommit` in notmuch-config(1).
213 Document the algorithm used to find a database.
218 Define format version 5, which supports sorting the output of
224 `notmuch` no longer sets `mail-user-agent` on load. To restore the
225 previous behaviour of using notmuch to send mail by default, customize
226 `mail-user-agent` to `notmuch-user-agent`.
228 `notmuch-company` now works in `org-msg`.
230 Improve the display of messages from long threads in unthreaded mode.
232 Prefer email addresses over User ID when showing valid signatures.
234 Define a new face `notmuch-jump-key`.
236 New commands in notmuch-tree view: `notmuch-tree-filter` and `notmuch-tree-filter-by-tag`.
238 Honour `notmuch-show-text/html-blocked-images` when using `w3m` to
241 Support toggling sort order in notmuch-tree mode.
246 Memory management of allocated notmuch objects (database, messages,
247 etc...) is now done via the Ruby GC. This removes all constraints on
248 the order of object destruction. Database close and destroy are
249 split, following an old library API change.
254 Respect excluded tags when showing a thread.
259 Fix doc build for Sphinx 4.0.
261 Improve the markup and linking of the documentation.
263 Notmuch 0.32.3 (2021-08-17)
264 ===========================
269 Restore location of database via `MAILDIR` environment variable, which
272 Bump libnotmuch minor version to match the documentation in
275 Correct documentation for deprecated database opening functions to
276 point out that they (still) do not load configuration information.
281 Restore "notmuch config get built_with.*", which was broken in 0.32.
283 Notmuch 0.32.2 (2021-06-27)
284 ===========================
289 Fix a bug from 2017 that can add duplicate thread-id terms to message
295 Fix small memory leak in notmuch new.
300 Add `(require 'seq)` for `seq-some`.
305 Fix man page build for Sphinx 4.x. Fix variable name in emacs docs.
310 Fix backup creation in `perf-test/T00-new`. Check openssl
311 prerequisite in `add_gpgsm_home`.
313 Notmuch 0.32.1 (2021-05-15)
314 ===========================
319 Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
320 broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
321 `database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
323 Reload certain metadata from Xapian database in
324 notmuch_database_reopen. This fixes a bug when adding messages to the
325 database in a pre-new hook.
327 Fix default of `$HOME/mail` for `database.path`. In release 0.32, this
328 default worked only in "notmuch config".
333 Restore the dynamically bound variables `tag-changes` and `query` in
334 in `notmuch-before-tag-hook` and `notmuch-after-tag-hook`.
336 Add `notmuch-jump-key` face to fontify keys in `notmuch-jump` and
337 related functions. To ensure backward compatibility, the new face
338 inherits from `minibuffer-prompt`.
340 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
341 =========================
346 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
347 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
348 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
349 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
350 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
351 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
352 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
353 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
354 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
355 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
356 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
361 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
362 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
364 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
365 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
366 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
367 - `notmuch_config_get`
369 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
370 now exposed (and generalized).
372 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
373 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
374 session has been fixed.
376 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
377 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`.
382 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
383 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
385 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
386 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
391 Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
392 completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
393 users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
394 when prompting for senders.
396 Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
397 lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
400 Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
402 Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
404 Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
405 `notmuch-address-locate-command`,
406 `notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
407 `notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
408 `notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
409 `notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
410 `notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
412 Keymaps are no longer fset, which means they need to be referred to in
413 define-key directly (without quotes). If your Emacs configuration has a
415 (define-key 'notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
416 you should change it to:
417 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
419 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
420 ===========================
425 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
430 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
432 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
433 ===========================
438 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
443 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding.
448 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
450 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
451 ===========================
456 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
457 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
459 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
460 ===========================
465 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
470 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
471 with a C++ header for some compilers.
473 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
475 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
476 =========================
481 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
482 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
483 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
485 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
487 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
489 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
491 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
494 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
496 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
497 search, show and tree mode)
499 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
502 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
505 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
506 always be newest first.
511 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
512 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
513 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
519 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
520 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
521 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
522 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
524 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
525 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
526 non-status providing versions.
528 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
529 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
531 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
532 promised in the documentation.
537 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
538 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
539 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
544 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
545 development version).
550 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
555 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
557 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
558 =========================
563 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
564 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
565 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
568 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
574 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
575 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
576 notmuch-properties(7)).
581 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
582 has protected headers (see
583 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
584 notmuch-properties(7)).
589 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
591 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
592 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
598 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
601 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
602 ===========================
607 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
609 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
614 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
616 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
617 ===========================
622 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
623 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
625 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
626 ===========================
631 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
633 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
634 =========================
639 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
640 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
643 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
644 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
645 the set of headers to be indexed.
647 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
650 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
651 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
652 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
655 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
656 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
657 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
659 Command Line Interface
660 ----------------------
662 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
665 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
667 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
668 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
669 more details about what is included there. This status includes
670 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
675 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
676 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
678 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
680 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
682 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
684 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
686 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
689 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
691 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
692 and may be removed in a future release.
694 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
700 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
702 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
703 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
708 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
709 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
710 cryptography support.
715 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
716 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
717 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
719 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
720 ===========================
722 Command line interface
723 ----------------------
725 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
726 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
728 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
729 ===========================
734 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
735 by message properties.
740 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
742 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
743 ===========================
748 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
753 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
754 now needed to build this documentation.
756 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
757 ===========================
762 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
763 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
765 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
766 =========================
773 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
774 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
775 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
776 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
777 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
780 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
782 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
783 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
784 correct encoding for such messages.
786 Command Line Interface
787 ----------------------
789 Support relative database paths
791 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
792 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
793 to $HOME of the invoking user.
798 Improve stderr handling
800 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
801 needed on e.g. macOS.
803 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
805 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
810 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
811 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
817 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
818 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
824 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
825 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
828 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
829 =========================
834 Add support for thread:{} queries
836 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
837 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
838 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
840 Command Line Interface
841 ----------------------
843 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
845 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
847 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
849 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
850 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
851 does not have to be available during message receipt.
856 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
862 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
863 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
865 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
866 ===========================
871 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
873 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
874 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
875 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
877 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
879 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
880 related abort in `notmuch show`.
882 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
883 ===========================
888 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
889 better late than never.
892 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
893 =========================
895 Command Line Interface
896 ----------------------
898 Support for re-indexing existing messages
900 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
901 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
902 change the way specific messages are indexed.
904 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
905 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
906 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
908 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
910 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
912 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
914 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
915 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
916 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
917 the setting of `new.tags`.
919 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
921 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
923 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
925 This inserts into the top level folder.
927 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
929 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
931 New option --output=address for notmuch address
933 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
935 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
937 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
938 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
939 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
941 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
946 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
948 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
949 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
950 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
951 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
952 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
953 config set index.decrypt true".
955 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
956 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
957 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
958 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
959 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
960 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
961 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
962 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
964 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
965 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
966 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
967 this feature without considering the security of your index.
972 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
974 Use make-process when available
976 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
977 notmuch command without using temporary files.
982 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
984 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
985 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
986 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
987 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
989 New functions to count files
991 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
992 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
994 New function to remove properties
996 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
997 drop all properties with a common pattern:
998 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
1000 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
1002 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
1003 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
1004 possibility of NULL was not documented.
1006 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
1008 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
1009 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
1010 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
1011 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
1012 operator may decide to change from message to message.
1019 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
1020 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
1021 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
1027 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
1029 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
1030 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
1032 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
1034 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
1036 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
1038 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
1043 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
1044 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
1046 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
1047 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
1048 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
1049 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
1050 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
1051 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
1056 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
1058 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
1059 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
1060 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
1061 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
1063 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
1064 ===========================
1069 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
1070 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
1073 Command Line Interface
1074 ----------------------
1076 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
1077 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
1080 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
1081 ===========================
1083 Command Line Interface
1084 ----------------------
1086 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
1087 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
1092 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
1095 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
1096 ===========================
1101 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
1104 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
1105 =========================
1110 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
1112 Skip HTML tags when indexing
1114 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
1116 Command Line Interface
1117 ----------------------
1119 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
1121 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
1126 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
1128 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
1129 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
1132 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
1137 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
1139 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
1140 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
1142 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
1144 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
1145 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
1148 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
1150 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
1152 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
1154 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
1155 ===========================
1157 Command Line Interface
1158 ----------------------
1160 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
1165 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
1167 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
1168 ===========================
1173 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
1175 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
1176 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
1179 Command Line Interface
1180 ----------------------
1182 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
1184 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
1186 Fix bug in dump header
1188 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
1189 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
1190 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
1195 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
1197 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
1198 =========================
1203 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
1205 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
1208 Command Line Interface
1209 ----------------------
1211 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
1213 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
1214 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
1215 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
1217 New default output format to 3
1219 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
1220 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
1221 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
1222 default format changes.
1227 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
1229 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
1230 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
1231 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
1232 or tree view to resume.
1234 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
1235 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
1236 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
1239 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
1240 they were when you postponed in the final message.
1244 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
1245 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
1246 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
1247 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
1248 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
1252 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
1253 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
1254 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
1255 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
1256 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
1257 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
1261 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
1262 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
1264 Stop display of `application/*` parts
1266 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
1267 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
1268 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
1269 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
1270 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
1271 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
1272 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
1273 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
1276 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
1278 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
1279 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
1280 only tagged the current thread.)
1282 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
1284 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
1285 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
1286 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
1288 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
1290 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
1291 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
1292 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
1293 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
1294 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
1295 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
1296 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
1298 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
1300 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
1301 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
1302 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
1307 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
1309 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
1312 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
1314 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
1317 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
1318 ===========================
1323 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
1325 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
1326 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
1327 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
1330 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
1331 ===========================
1333 Command Line Interface
1334 ----------------------
1336 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
1341 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
1343 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
1344 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
1345 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
1347 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
1348 ===========================
1353 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
1354 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
1356 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
1357 ===========================
1359 Command Line Interface
1360 ----------------------
1362 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
1364 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
1365 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
1366 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1371 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1373 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1374 ===========================
1376 Command Line Interface
1377 ----------------------
1379 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1384 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1386 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1387 ===========================
1392 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1394 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1395 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1396 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1398 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1400 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1402 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1403 ===========================
1408 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1410 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1415 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1417 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1418 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1419 the original colours.
1421 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1422 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1424 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1426 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1427 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1428 bug, and hence the test.
1430 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1431 =========================
1433 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1434 ---------------------
1436 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1438 Support for single argument date: queries
1440 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1442 Support for blocking opens
1444 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1445 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1447 Support for named queries
1449 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1450 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1451 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1456 Message property API
1458 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1459 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1460 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1461 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1463 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1465 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1470 Support for compile time options
1472 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1473 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1476 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1478 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1479 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1480 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1481 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1482 scripts to ignore it.
1487 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1489 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1490 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1491 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1493 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1494 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1495 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1496 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1497 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1498 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1499 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1501 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1502 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1505 Make internal address completion customizable
1507 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1508 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1509 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1510 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1513 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1515 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1516 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1517 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1518 completion for the current buffer.
1520 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1521 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1522 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1526 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1527 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1528 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1529 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1530 will be added instead.
1532 Face customization is easier
1534 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1535 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1536 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1537 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1539 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1544 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1549 Go bindings moved to contrib
1551 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1553 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1555 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1556 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1558 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1560 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1561 ===========================
1568 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1569 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1571 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1573 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1575 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1576 ===========================
1581 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1583 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1588 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1593 Use `env` to locate perl.
1598 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1600 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1602 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1604 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1606 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1607 =========================
1614 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1615 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1617 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1619 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1620 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1621 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1626 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1627 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1628 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1630 Command Line Interface
1631 ----------------------
1633 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1635 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1640 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1645 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1647 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1648 parts are now included in replies.
1650 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1651 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1652 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1653 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1655 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1657 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1659 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1661 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1662 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1663 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1664 forwards only the current message.
1666 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1668 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1669 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1670 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1671 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1672 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1673 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1674 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1675 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1678 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1679 longer generate empty buffers
1681 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1682 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1683 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1684 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1685 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1687 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1689 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1692 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1694 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1697 Address completion improvements
1699 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1700 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1701 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1702 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1703 interactive address completion.
1705 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1707 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1708 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1709 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1714 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1715 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1716 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1722 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1723 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1724 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1725 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1726 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1727 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1729 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1730 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1731 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1732 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1733 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1734 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1736 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1737 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1739 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1740 =========================
1745 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1748 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1750 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1751 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1752 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1754 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1755 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1757 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1758 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1759 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1761 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1763 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1764 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1765 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1766 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1767 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1768 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1773 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1774 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1777 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1778 option to configure.
1780 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1782 Command Line Interface
1783 ----------------------
1785 Database revision tracking
1787 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1788 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1789 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1790 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1792 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1794 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1795 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1796 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1797 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1798 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1799 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1800 manual page for further information.
1805 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1807 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1808 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1810 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1812 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1813 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1814 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1816 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1818 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1820 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1821 customization as well.
1823 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1825 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1827 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1829 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1831 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1832 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1833 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1834 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1836 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1838 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1839 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1840 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1841 this variable to 10000.
1846 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1847 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1849 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1851 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1852 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1853 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1854 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1855 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1856 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1857 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1858 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1859 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1862 Database revision tracking
1864 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1865 query parser and the new function
1866 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1868 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1870 Deprecated functions
1872 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1873 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1874 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1875 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1880 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1882 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1883 ===========================
1888 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1890 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1891 ===========================
1896 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1898 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1899 =========================
1901 Command-Line Interface
1902 ----------------------
1904 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1906 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1907 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1908 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1910 Path to gpg is now configurable
1912 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1913 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1918 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1920 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1925 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1930 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1935 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1937 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1938 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1940 New error logging facility
1942 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1943 output formerly printed to stderr.
1945 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1947 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1949 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1951 Fix for rounding of seconds
1956 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1958 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1959 documentation has been removed.
1961 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1963 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1964 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1969 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1970 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1971 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1976 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1977 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1978 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1979 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1980 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1981 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1984 git checkout config origin/config
1986 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1988 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1989 =========================
1994 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1995 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1996 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1997 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1998 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1999 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
2000 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
2002 Command-Line Interface
2003 ----------------------
2005 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
2007 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
2008 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
2009 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
2010 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
2011 script callers should still check the return value.
2013 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
2015 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
2016 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
2017 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
2018 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
2019 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
2020 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
2021 and returning success even if indexing fails).
2023 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
2025 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
2026 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
2027 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
2029 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
2031 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
2032 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
2033 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
2034 currently unmaintained.
2036 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
2038 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
2039 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
2040 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
2041 have at least `N` files associated with them.
2043 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
2045 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
2046 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
2047 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
2048 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
2049 count of duplicate addresses.
2054 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
2056 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
2057 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
2058 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
2061 Improved handling of the unread tag
2063 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
2064 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
2065 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
2066 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
2067 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
2068 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
2069 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
2071 Expanded default saved search settings
2073 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
2074 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
2076 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
2078 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
2079 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
2080 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
2082 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
2084 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
2085 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
2086 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
2087 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
2088 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
2089 the variable for details.
2094 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
2096 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
2097 Representing these independently of the database version number will
2098 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
2099 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
2101 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
2103 Previously, library users were required to call
2104 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
2105 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
2106 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
2107 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
2108 too out of date for that API.
2110 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
2112 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
2113 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
2114 atomic section will be aborted.
2116 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
2117 `notmuch_database_destroy`
2119 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
2121 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
2122 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
2123 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
2124 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
2125 messages into the same thread.
2130 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
2131 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
2132 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
2133 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
2134 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
2135 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
2140 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
2141 from the config file. Use something like:
2145 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
2146 "footer": "</body></html>",
2155 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
2160 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
2161 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
2162 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
2164 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
2165 ===========================
2170 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
2172 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
2174 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
2176 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
2177 structure for signatures changed slightly.
2179 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
2181 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
2184 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
2185 ===========================
2187 This is a bug fix and portability release.
2192 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
2194 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
2196 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
2198 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
2200 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
2206 Use --quick when starting emacs
2208 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
2210 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
2212 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
2214 Command-Line Interface
2215 ----------------------
2217 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
2218 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
2223 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
2225 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
2226 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
2228 Fix for phrase indexing
2230 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
2231 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
2232 will affect only newly indexed messages.
2237 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
2239 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
2240 unintentionally removed.
2242 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
2243 =========================
2248 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
2249 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
2250 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
2251 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
2252 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
2253 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
2254 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
2255 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
2256 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
2262 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
2264 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
2265 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
2266 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
2267 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
2268 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
2269 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
2270 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
2271 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
2273 There is a new `path:` search prefix
2275 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
2276 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
2277 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
2278 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
2281 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
2283 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
2284 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
2285 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
2286 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
2287 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
2288 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
2289 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
2294 Notmuch database upgrade
2296 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
2297 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
2298 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
2299 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
2300 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
2301 released version of Notmuch before now.
2303 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
2305 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
2306 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
2307 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
2308 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
2310 Message header parsing changes
2312 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
2313 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
2314 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
2315 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
2316 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
2317 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
2319 Command-Line Interface
2320 ----------------------
2322 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
2324 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
2326 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
2328 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
2330 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
2332 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
2333 user does not want it.
2335 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
2337 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
2338 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
2339 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
2340 support formatted output.
2342 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
2344 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
2345 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
2346 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
2354 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
2355 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
2356 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
2357 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
2358 `~/.emacs` with these.
2360 Changed format for saved searches
2362 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
2363 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
2364 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
2365 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
2368 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2369 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2370 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2371 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2373 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2374 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2375 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2377 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2378 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2379 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2380 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2381 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2383 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2385 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2386 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2387 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2389 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2391 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2392 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2393 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2394 message had been unread).
2396 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2397 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2398 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2399 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2401 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2402 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2403 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2405 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2406 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2407 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2408 to tags already present.
2412 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2413 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2414 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2415 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2416 these differ from each other.
2417 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2419 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2421 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2422 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2423 for these Emacs versions.
2425 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2427 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2428 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2430 Bug fixes for sender identities
2432 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2433 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2434 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2436 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2438 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2439 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2440 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2441 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2443 Reply pushes mark before signature
2445 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2446 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2447 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2449 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2451 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2452 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2458 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2459 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2461 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2462 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2463 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2464 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2466 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2467 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2468 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2469 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2470 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2472 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2474 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2475 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2477 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2478 =========================
2480 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2481 ---------------------------------------
2483 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2484 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2485 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2486 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2487 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2488 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2489 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2493 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2494 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2496 Command-Line Interface
2497 ----------------------
2499 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2501 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2502 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2503 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2504 print for each message.
2506 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2507 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2508 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2509 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2511 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2513 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2514 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2515 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2517 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2519 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2520 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2521 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2522 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2524 `notmuch compact` command
2526 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2527 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2528 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2529 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2530 move the compacted database into place.
2535 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2537 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2538 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2539 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2540 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2541 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2542 and multiple threads.
2544 Using `notmuch-tree`
2546 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2548 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2549 search, show and tree mode itself)
2551 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2554 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2555 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2557 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2559 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2560 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2561 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2562 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2563 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2564 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2565 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2567 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2569 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2570 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2571 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2572 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2573 thread when the search was performed.
2575 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2577 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2578 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2579 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2581 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2583 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2584 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2587 Built-in help improvements
2589 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2590 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2591 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2593 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2595 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2596 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2597 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2599 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2601 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2602 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2604 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2606 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2607 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2608 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2609 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2611 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2613 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2614 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2615 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2616 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2618 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2620 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2621 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2622 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2624 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2626 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2627 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2628 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2630 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2632 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2633 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2634 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2635 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2636 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2638 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2640 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2641 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2642 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2643 the body part of the message.
2648 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2649 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2650 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2652 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2653 =========================
2655 Command-Line Interface
2656 ----------------------
2658 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2660 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2661 folder and notmuch index.
2663 `notmuch count --batch` option
2665 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2666 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2668 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2670 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2671 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2672 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2675 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2677 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2678 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2679 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2680 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2681 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2684 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2686 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2687 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2689 Top level option to specify configuration file
2691 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2692 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2694 Bash command-line completion
2696 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2697 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2698 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2699 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2700 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2701 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2702 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2703 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2704 bash-completion package.
2706 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2711 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2713 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2714 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2715 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2716 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2717 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2718 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2719 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2720 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2722 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2724 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2725 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2726 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2728 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2730 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2731 previous thread in the search results.
2733 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2735 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2736 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2738 Faster search and show
2740 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2741 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2742 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2743 threads should show faster.
2747 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2748 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2749 in question was now removed from this release.
2754 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2755 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2760 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2762 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2763 ===========================
2768 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2770 Internal test framework changes
2771 -------------------------------
2773 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2774 being unimplemented.
2776 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2777 ===========================
2779 Internal test framework changes
2780 -------------------------------
2782 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2783 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2785 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2786 =========================
2791 Date range search support
2793 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2794 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2795 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2796 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2797 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2800 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2802 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2803 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2804 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2805 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2806 but may be removed in a future release.
2808 Command-Line Interface
2809 ----------------------
2811 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2813 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2814 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2816 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2818 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2819 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2820 officially deprecated.
2822 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2824 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2825 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2826 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2828 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2830 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2831 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2834 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2835 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2836 dump/restore format.
2838 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2840 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2841 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2842 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2844 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2846 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2847 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2848 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2850 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2852 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2853 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2854 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2855 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2860 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2862 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2863 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2864 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2865 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2867 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2869 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2870 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2871 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2872 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2873 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2874 the behavior of this, see
2875 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2876 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2878 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2879 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2880 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2882 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2884 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2885 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2888 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2890 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2891 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2892 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2893 simply displayed in place of the message.
2895 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2897 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2898 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2900 Improved text/calendar content handling
2902 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2903 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2904 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2905 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2907 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2909 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2910 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2911 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2912 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2914 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2916 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2917 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2918 for HTML email containing images.
2920 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2922 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2924 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2926 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2929 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2931 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2932 the point where it was.
2934 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2936 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2937 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2938 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2939 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2940 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2942 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2944 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2945 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2946 thread instead of the message id.
2948 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2949 -----------------------------
2951 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2952 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2953 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2954 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2955 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2956 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2957 further details and installation.
2962 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2964 Internal test framework changes
2965 -------------------------------
2967 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2969 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2970 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2971 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2972 can result in buggy behavior.
2974 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2975 =========================
2980 Maildir tag synchronization
2982 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2983 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2984 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2985 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2986 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2987 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2990 Command-Line Interface
2991 ----------------------
2993 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2994 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2995 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2996 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2997 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
3003 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
3005 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
3007 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
3008 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
3009 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
3011 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
3013 It is now possible to embed newlines in
3014 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
3015 span multiple lines.
3017 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
3019 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
3020 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
3021 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
3022 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
3023 inside the result or message.
3025 Search now uses the JSON format internally
3027 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
3028 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
3030 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
3031 user-specified formatting
3033 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
3034 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
3035 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
3036 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
3037 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
3039 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
3040 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
3042 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
3043 ===========================
3048 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
3049 compilation error for this contrib package.
3051 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
3052 ===========================
3057 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
3059 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
3060 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
3061 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
3062 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
3064 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
3065 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
3068 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
3069 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
3070 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
3071 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
3074 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
3076 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
3079 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
3080 =========================
3082 Command-Line Interface
3083 ----------------------
3087 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
3088 for a reply message and full information about the original message
3089 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
3090 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
3092 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
3093 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
3094 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
3095 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
3099 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
3100 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
3102 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
3103 tag in your query, for example:
3105 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
3107 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
3108 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
3110 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
3111 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
3113 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
3115 Raw show format changes
3117 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
3118 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
3119 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
3120 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
3121 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
3122 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
3123 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
3124 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
3126 Listing configuration items
3128 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
3134 Changes to tagging interface
3136 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
3137 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
3138 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
3139 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
3140 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
3141 for more information.
3143 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
3144 may need to update in custom configurations.
3146 Reply improvement using the JSON format
3148 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
3149 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
3150 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
3151 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
3154 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
3155 -----------------------------
3157 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
3158 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
3159 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
3160 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
3161 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
3162 contrib/ from now on.
3167 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
3168 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
3170 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
3171 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
3173 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
3174 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
3175 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
3177 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
3178 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
3180 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
3181 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
3182 returning the new database object or directory object.
3189 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
3190 compatible with go 1.
3192 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
3193 =========================
3195 Command-Line Interface
3196 ----------------------
3200 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
3201 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
3202 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
3203 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
3205 Mail store folder/file ignore
3207 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
3208 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
3209 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
3211 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
3212 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
3214 Unified help and manual pages
3216 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
3217 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
3220 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
3222 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
3223 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
3231 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
3232 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
3233 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
3234 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
3236 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
3238 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
3239 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
3241 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
3244 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
3245 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
3246 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
3248 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
3250 should be changed to:
3252 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
3254 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
3256 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
3257 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
3259 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
3261 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
3262 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
3263 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
3264 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
3265 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
3266 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
3270 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
3271 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
3272 of Mailing List Archives.
3274 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
3276 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
3277 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
3280 Show view archiving key binding changes
3282 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
3283 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
3284 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
3285 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
3286 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
3289 Support text/calendar MIME type
3291 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
3294 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
3296 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
3297 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
3298 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
3299 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
3301 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
3303 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
3304 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
3305 messages blue by default in the search view.
3309 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
3310 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
3317 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
3320 Python bindings changes
3321 -----------------------
3323 Python 3.2 compatibility
3325 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
3327 Added missing unicode conversions
3329 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
3330 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
3331 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
3336 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
3338 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
3339 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
3340 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
3341 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
3342 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
3344 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
3345 ===========================
3350 Fix error handling in python bindings
3352 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
3353 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
3354 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
3355 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
3357 Quote MML tags in replies
3359 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
3360 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
3361 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
3362 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
3363 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
3364 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
3365 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
3366 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
3368 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3369 =========================
3371 Command-Line Interface
3372 ----------------------
3376 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3377 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3378 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3379 importing new messages into the database.
3381 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3383 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3384 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3385 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3390 Automatic tag query optimization
3392 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3393 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3394 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3396 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3398 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3399 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3400 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3405 Reduction of memory leaks
3407 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3408 and fixed in this release.
3415 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3416 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3417 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3420 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3422 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3423 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3424 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3427 Improvements in saved search management
3429 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3430 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3431 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3433 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3435 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3436 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3437 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3439 New face for crypto parts headers
3441 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3442 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3443 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3446 Use space as default thousands separator
3448 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3449 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3450 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3452 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3453 buttonized id: links
3455 New function notmuch-show-advance
3457 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3458 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3459 be bound to SPC with:
3461 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3463 Various performance improvements
3468 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3469 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3472 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3473 ===========================
3478 Fix crash in python bindings
3480 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3481 for some, but not all users.
3483 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3484 ===========================
3489 Fix `--help` argument
3491 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3492 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3493 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3495 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3496 =========================
3498 New build and testing features
3499 ------------------------------
3501 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3502 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3503 prerequisites is improved.
3505 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3507 New command-line features
3508 -------------------------
3510 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3512 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3513 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3516 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3518 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3519 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3520 favour of using stdout.
3522 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3524 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3525 limit the number of results shown.
3527 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3529 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3530 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3533 New emacs UI features
3534 ---------------------
3536 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3538 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3539 starting with "tag:".
3541 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3543 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3544 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3546 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3548 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3550 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3552 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3553 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3558 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3560 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3562 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3563 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3564 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3565 requires a database rebuild:
3567 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3568 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3570 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3572 New collection of add-on tools
3573 ------------------------------
3575 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3576 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3577 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3580 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3582 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3583 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3584 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3586 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3587 ========================
3589 New, general features
3590 ---------------------
3592 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3594 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3595 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3596 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3597 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3598 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3605 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3606 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3608 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3612 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3613 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3614 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3617 Python bindings changes
3618 -----------------------
3620 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3622 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3623 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3624 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3625 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3626 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3627 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3629 Ruby bindings changes
3630 ---------------------
3632 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3633 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3634 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3635 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3640 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3642 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3643 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3645 Reply formatting cleanup
3646 ------------------------
3648 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3649 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3651 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3652 ========================
3654 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3656 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3657 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3658 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3659 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3662 Improved Build system portability
3664 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3665 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3666 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3668 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3670 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3672 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3674 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3675 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3676 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3678 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3679 ========================
3681 Vim interface improvements
3682 --------------------------
3684 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3686 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3687 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3688 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3689 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3690 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3692 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3694 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3695 * fix compose temp file name
3697 Python Bindings changes
3698 -----------------------
3700 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3702 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3703 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3705 Build-System improvements
3706 -------------------------
3708 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3710 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3713 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3714 ==========================
3719 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3721 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3722 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3724 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3725 =======================
3727 New, general features
3728 ---------------------
3730 Folder-based searching
3732 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3733 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3734 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3738 For example, one might use things such as:
3744 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3745 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3747 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3748 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3749 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3750 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3752 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3753 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3754 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3757 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3758 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3760 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3762 Support for PGP/MIME
3764 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3765 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3766 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3768 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3770 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3771 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3773 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3774 notmuch will receive these tags.
3776 New command-line features
3777 -------------------------
3779 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3781 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3782 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3784 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3786 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3787 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3788 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3790 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3792 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3793 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3794 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3795 which parts a signature part applies).
3797 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3799 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3800 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3801 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3802 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3803 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3806 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3808 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3809 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3810 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3811 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3812 by translating it internally to the new call.
3814 Performance improvements
3815 ------------------------
3817 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3819 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3820 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3821 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3823 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3824 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3826 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3828 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3829 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3830 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3832 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3833 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3834 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3835 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3837 Faster initial indexing
3839 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3840 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3841 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3843 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3845 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3846 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3847 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3848 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3850 New emacs-interface features
3851 ----------------------------
3853 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3855 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3856 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3857 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3858 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3859 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3860 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3862 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3864 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3865 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3866 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3867 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3869 User-selectable From address
3871 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3872 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3873 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3874 will prompt for the from address to use.
3876 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3877 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3878 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3880 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3881 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3882 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3885 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3887 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3888 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3890 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3892 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3894 ----- Original Message -----
3896 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3897 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3898 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3899 citations work much like conventional citations.
3901 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3903 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3904 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3905 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3906 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3907 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3909 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3910 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3912 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3914 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3915 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3916 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3918 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3920 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3921 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3922 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3923 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3924 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3926 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3928 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3931 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3933 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3935 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3937 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3940 Vim interface improvements
3941 --------------------------
3943 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3945 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3946 * Implementing archive in show view
3947 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3948 * Add delete commands
3951 Bindings improvements
3952 ---------------------
3954 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3956 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3957 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3959 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3961 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3965 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3966 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3967 `list(Messages)` works now
3968 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3970 These allow, for example:
3972 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3974 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3976 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3982 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3984 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3987 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3989 New build-system features
3990 -------------------------
3992 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3994 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3995 the configure script from some other directory:
4002 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
4004 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
4005 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
4006 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
4007 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
4008 manual invocation of configure.
4010 New test-suite feature
4011 ----------------------
4013 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
4015 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
4016 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
4017 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
4018 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
4019 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
4022 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
4024 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
4025 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
4026 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
4027 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
4028 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
4029 are updated to take advantage of this.
4031 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
4033 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
4034 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
4035 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
4036 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
4042 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
4044 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
4045 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
4046 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
4048 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
4050 This fixed a bug where a search for:
4052 to:user@elsewhere.com
4054 would incorrectly match a message sent:
4056 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
4058 Fix --output=json when search has no results
4060 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
4061 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
4062 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
4065 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
4066 from the Received headers in some cases
4068 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
4069 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
4071 Cleaned up several memory leaks
4073 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
4075 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
4077 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
4078 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
4079 interface and were never intended to be exported.
4081 Emacs-interface bug fixes
4082 -------------------------
4084 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
4086 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
4087 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
4088 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
4090 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
4092 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
4093 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
4094 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
4097 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
4099 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
4100 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
4101 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
4102 fixed to avoid this bug.
4104 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
4106 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
4107 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
4109 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
4110 ========================
4112 New, general features
4113 ---------------------
4115 Maildir-flag synchronization
4117 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
4118 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
4127 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
4129 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
4130 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
4131 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
4132 renamed with an 'R' flag).
4134 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
4135 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
4136 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
4137 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
4140 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
4142 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
4143 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
4144 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
4146 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
4147 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
4149 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
4150 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
4152 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
4153 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
4154 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
4156 New library features
4157 --------------------
4159 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
4161 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
4162 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
4163 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
4164 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
4166 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
4167 message with the new function:
4169 notmuch_message_get_filenames
4171 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
4172 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
4173 over all available filenames for a given message.
4175 New command-line features
4176 -------------------------
4178 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
4180 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
4181 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
4182 access to the mail store itself.
4184 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
4185 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
4186 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
4187 name of a script containing:
4189 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
4191 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
4192 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
4198 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
4200 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
4202 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
4204 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
4205 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
4206 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
4207 now produces nothing).
4209 Emacs interface improvements
4210 ----------------------------
4212 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
4214 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
4216 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
4218 Display current thread subject in a header line
4220 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
4222 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
4224 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
4225 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
4226 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
4227 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
4228 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
4229 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
4230 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
4232 Vim interface improvements
4233 --------------------------
4235 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
4237 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
4238 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
4244 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
4246 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
4247 ========================
4249 New command-line features
4250 -------------------------
4252 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
4254 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
4255 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
4256 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
4258 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
4259 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
4260 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
4261 scripts. For example:
4263 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
4264 <operations-on> "$file"
4267 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
4269 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
4270 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
4271 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
4272 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
4273 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
4274 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
4276 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
4278 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
4279 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
4280 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
4281 custom items stored in the configuration file.
4283 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
4285 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
4286 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
4287 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
4288 default rather than Bcc.
4290 New library features
4291 --------------------
4293 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
4295 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
4296 `notmuch_query_t` object.
4301 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
4303 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
4304 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
4305 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
4306 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
4307 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
4308 notmuch customize interface.
4310 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
4312 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
4313 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
4314 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
4315 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
4317 Optional support for detecting inline patches
4319 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
4320 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
4321 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
4322 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
4324 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
4326 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
4327 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
4328 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
4329 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
4330 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
4331 notmuch customize interface.
4333 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
4335 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
4336 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
4337 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
4338 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
4339 notmuch customize interface.
4341 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
4343 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
4344 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
4345 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
4346 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
4349 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
4351 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
4352 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
4353 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
4356 New build-system features
4357 -------------------------
4359 Various portability fixes have been applied
4361 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
4362 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
4363 more portable than ever before.
4365 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
4367 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
4368 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4369 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4371 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4372 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4373 automatically run ldconfig.
4375 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4376 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4377 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4379 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4380 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4381 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4382 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4384 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4386 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4387 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4388 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4389 used in the resulting Makefile.
4391 New test-suite features
4392 -----------------------
4394 New modularization of test suite
4396 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4397 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4398 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4399 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4400 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4401 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4402 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4403 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4405 New testing of emacs interface
4407 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4408 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4409 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4410 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4411 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4412 database via the FCC setting.
4417 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4419 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4420 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4421 persistent error of the form:
4423 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4425 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4426 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4428 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4430 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4431 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4432 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4434 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4436 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4437 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4438 parsing the notmuch results).
4440 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4442 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4445 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4446 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4447 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4452 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4454 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4455 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4456 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4457 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4458 the emacs interface.
4460 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4462 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4463 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4464 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4466 Python-binding fixes
4467 --------------------
4469 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4471 Debian-specific fixes
4472 ---------------------
4474 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4476 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4477 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4478 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4481 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4482 ==========================
4487 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4489 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4490 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4491 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4492 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4494 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4496 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4497 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4498 want notmuch to crash.
4503 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4505 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4506 directory does not exist
4511 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4513 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4514 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4516 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4517 ========================
4519 New command-line features
4520 -------------------------
4522 User-configurable tags for new messages
4524 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4525 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4526 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4527 to specify this value.
4529 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4531 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4532 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4533 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4535 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4537 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4538 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4540 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4542 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4543 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4544 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4545 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4546 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4549 Indication of author names that match a search
4551 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4552 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4553 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4554 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4555 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4556 messages in the thread are listed first.
4558 New: Python bindings
4559 --------------------
4561 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4562 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4563 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4564 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4566 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4567 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4568 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4571 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4572 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4573 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4575 Emacs interface improvements
4576 ----------------------------
4578 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4580 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4581 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4582 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4583 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4584 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4585 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4586 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4587 but without any of the disadvantages).
4589 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4590 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4591 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4594 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4595 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4596 instead running something like:
4598 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4600 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4601 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4602 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4605 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4607 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4608 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4609 tweaked by the user.
4611 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4612 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4613 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4616 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4617 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4618 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4621 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4623 This support currently relies on an external program,
4624 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4625 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4626 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4627 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4628 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4631 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4632 notmuch) is available via:
4634 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4636 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4637 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4638 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4640 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4642 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4643 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4644 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4645 making this automatic in a future release.
4647 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4649 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4650 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4651 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4652 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4653 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4654 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4657 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4659 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4660 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4661 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4663 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4665 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4666 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4667 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4669 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4670 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4671 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4672 other representation.
4674 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4675 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4678 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4680 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4681 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4682 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4684 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4685 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4686 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4688 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4690 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4691 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4692 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4693 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4694 to display the search result.
4696 More flexible handling of header visibility
4698 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4699 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4700 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4701 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4702 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4703 with the 'h' keybinding.
4705 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4706 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4707 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4709 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4711 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4713 Customizable formatting of search results
4715 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4716 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4717 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4719 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4721 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4723 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4728 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4730 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4731 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4732 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4733 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4739 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4741 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4742 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4744 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4746 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4747 accept are now all accepted.
4752 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4754 Better display of output from failed tests
4756 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4757 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4759 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4760 ========================
4762 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4763 detailed release notes this time!
4765 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4766 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4768 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4769 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4770 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4771 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4778 Better guessing of From: header
4780 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4781 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4782 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4783 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4784 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4787 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4789 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4790 guaranteed to match all messages.
4792 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4794 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4795 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4796 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4797 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4798 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4801 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4804 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4805 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4806 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4807 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4812 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4814 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4815 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4816 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4817 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4819 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4821 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4823 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4824 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4825 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4827 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4829 Previously, the user might see:
4831 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4835 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4837 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4838 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4839 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4840 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4842 Emacs client features
4843 ---------------------
4845 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4847 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4848 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4849 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4850 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4851 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4853 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4856 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4857 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4858 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4859 search with the '*' binding.
4861 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4863 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4864 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4867 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4869 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4870 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4871 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4873 Build-system features
4874 ---------------------
4876 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4878 Add support to configure for many standard options
4880 We include actual support for:
4882 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4884 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4886 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4887 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4889 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4890 separate "make install-emacs"
4892 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4894 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4895 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4896 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4898 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4901 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4902 ========================
4904 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4906 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4907 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4909 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4910 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4911 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4912 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4913 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4914 tags from messages in a thread.
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